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The Home Secretary today unveiled proposals for legislation to deal with the problems caused by buskers and new age travellers, which he described as "among the most serious nuisances of our time." More even than the new diseases and the chronic unreliability of the postal service, he said, vagrants and beggars of all kinds were potentially a scourge of our peaceful streets.
The past few years have seen a dramatic upsurge in the number of buskers on all the metropolitan underground railway networks which are still in operation. Many of them play music at a volume which interferes with the comfort and quiet of the experience of waiting on platforms and getting in and out of trains. Government-funded research has laid part of the blame for two of the recent King's Cross disasters on the distraction caused by buskers. According to their reports, the music caused unnecessary bodily gyration in certain elements of the crowds on the platforms, which reinforced the crush and forced people at the front onto the electrified lines.
New age travellers are a diminishing problem, says the Home Secretary, particularly since the introduction of compulsory residential postcode display on all identity cards. However, a few obstinate elements still remain, and the Home Secretary found time in his speech to thank the Daily Mail for repeatedly drawing public attention to the nuisance caused.
Although the proposed legislation does not go quite as far as the Daily Mail might wish (the newspaper has advocated flogging, castration and severing of the Achilles tendon for persistent offenders), the Home Secretary said he was "confident that it would get the job done". Among other things, it is proposed that a new crime of "automotive residence with malice aforethought" be placed on the statute books, and that harsher penalties be imposed for melodic disruption of public facilities.
The Home Secretary has also announced plans for a new offence of "suspicious behaviour" and an extension of police powers to enable them to deal with what is expected to be a large influx into the new crop of privately-run prisons. The offence, which will be cause for summary arrest and brief incarceration, could include anything from "just standing around" through "looking at an officer in a manner likely to cause alarm or despondency" to "unwarranted self-assertion in the face of questioning", the Home Secretary said.
Futures traders wishing to profit unfairly from the revelations contained herein are invited to apply to the reporter with appropriate incentives
The Home Secretary today unveiled proposals for legislation to deal with the problems caused by buskers and new age travellers, which he described as "among the most serious nuisances of our time." More even than the new diseases and the chronic unreliability of the postal service, he said, vagrants and beggars of all kinds were potentially a scourge of our peaceful streets.
The past few years have seen a dramatic upsurge in the number of buskers on all the metropolitan underground railway networks which are still in operation. Many of them play music at a volume which interferes with the comfort and quiet of the experience of waiting on platforms and getting in and out of trains. Government-funded research has laid part of the blame for two of the recent King's Cross disasters on the distraction caused by buskers. According to their reports, the music caused unnecessary bodily gyration in certain elements of the crowds on the platforms, which reinforced the crush and forced people at the front onto the electrified lines.
New age travellers are a diminishing problem, says the Home Secretary, particularly since the introduction of compulsory residential postcode display on all identity cards. However, a few obstinate elements still remain, and the Home Secretary found time in his speech to thank the Daily Mail for repeatedly drawing public attention to the nuisance caused.
Although the proposed legislation does not go quite as far as the Daily Mail might wish (the newspaper has advocated flogging, castration and severing of the Achilles tendon for persistent offenders), the Home Secretary said he was "confident that it would get the job done". Among other things, it is proposed that a new crime of "automotive residence with malice aforethought" be placed on the statute books, and that harsher penalties be imposed for melodic disruption of public facilities.
The Home Secretary has also announced plans for a new offence of "suspicious behaviour" and an extension of police powers to enable them to deal with what is expected to be a large influx into the new crop of privately-run prisons. The offence, which will be cause for summary arrest and brief incarceration, could include anything from "just standing around" through "looking at an officer in a manner likely to cause alarm or despondency" to "unwarranted self-assertion in the face of questioning", the Home Secretary said.
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